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1935
London-Rangoon direct on Imperial Airways 1935
room United Kingdom
During the first couple of decades of commercial aviation, flying from England to Australia always meant stopping in Rangoon. Imperial Airways was the British government's "chosen instrument to connect Britain with its extensive overseas interests" and, in 1934, the commercial airline established what was then the world's longest air route from Croydon in South London, UK, to Brisbane, Australia. Shown here are the main routes flown by Imperial Airways and a tourism poster produced b y Indiann State Railways and illustrated by British artist Percy Padden (1885-1965).